Whole Bunch of Cuts Today
by WTM on Apr 1, 2009 8:59 AM EDT
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Salazar, Bootcheck, Davis, Bautista, Garrett Jones, Erik Kratz (yeah, I know, who??), Virgil Vasquez, Phillips.
According to Kovacevic, that leaves 27, which includes Phil Dumatrait, who's going on the DL. With Vasquez cut, Karstens will start. So that leaves one cut left, and Jesse Chavez (who's been bombed all spring), Evan Meek (who has bronchitis), and Rule 5er Donnie Veal are still around. If you assume Meek is also going on the DL, the bullpen would look like this:
Matt Capps
John Grabow
Tyler Yates
Craig Hansen
Jesse Chavez
Sean Burnett
Donnie Veal
That could be the worst bullpen in modern baseball history. There's gotta be a trade or waiver claim coming.
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Kratz is a spare catcher, I think.
Probably just kept him around so they’d have someone to throw the ball back to the pitcher on side sessions.
Disappointed to see Salazar go. Hopefully, Nyjer and/or Monroe will play their way off the roster fairly quickly, so we can upgrade.
That pen has a lot of downside potential, but I still don’t think it’ll be as bad as our 2003 pen was.
Can you smell that?
That’s the smell of a Morgan/Monroe platoon.
Quick, someone name a team with a worse LF combo.
That's not gonna be a quick choice.
It’s gonna take a while to come up with a worse LF combo…if it’s even possible. :)
The 1899 Cleveland Spiders...
…used Dick Harley (.250/.315/.307, 79 OPS+ in 567 AB) as their primary LF. The few games he didn’t play there went primarily to Sport McAllister (.237/.273/.297, 64 OPS+) or Crazy Schmit (.157/.244/.157, 16 OPS+, primarily a pitcher). So there’s at least one team that did worse. Of course, the Spiders cancelled all of their home games in the second half because they spent more to open the park than they earned in ticket revenue, finished the year at a robust 20-134, and were dissolved at the end of the season. So we might want to set our sights a little higher, here.
For a more recent example:
The 2001 Baltimore Orioles had the following time-share in LF:
- starts, 393 innings: Delino DeShields, .197/.312/.309, 69 OPS+
- starts, 383 innings: Brady Anderson, .202/.311/.300, 66 OPS+
- starts, 224 innings: Jay Gibbons, .236/.301/.480, 106 OPS+
- starts, 206 innings: Mike Kinkade, .275/.345/.381, 96 OPS+
- starts, 169 innings: Jeff Conine, .311/.386/.443, 123 OPS+
Plus five starts spread among Larry Bigbie, Luis Matos, and a 41-year-old Tim Raines.
Conine was actually a decent option there. Unfortunately, they spent half the season with him as their starting 1B due to an injury to the perpetually-fragile David Segui, and he was also their best backup for 3B, RF, and DH.
Well, shit.
The stupid autoformatter ate my start totals. DeShields and Anderson were both mid-40s, everybody else was around 20.
I mean, technically anybody can "play" left.
But if we used him there, he’d have a range of about three steps and a wince to either side. And Nate would have a heart attack running down balls in the gap.
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